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Depth 35 1/3 to 39; head 9 to 10 1/5, 6 1/8 to 7 to 
vent, width 5 to 5 1/3; tail 2 1/3 in combined head and 
trunk* Snout 7 to 8 in head from snout tip; eye 15 to 27 
1/2, 2 1/2 to 4 in snout, 2 2/3 to 3 2/3 in interorbital; 
mouth cleft extends 1/2 to 1 1/2 eye diameters behind eye, 
length 3 4/5 to 4 2/3 in head from snout tip; teeth conic, 
pointed, recurved, uniserial in Jaws, anterior larger and 
stronger; Interorbital 6 1/2 to 8 1/5, low, broadly convex. 
Gill opening 9 1/4 to 16, slightly greater than to 1 2/5 in 
Interspace, 
Space between dorsal origin and vent 1 1/4 to 1 2/3 in 
head; dorsal and anal as low fold, little higher posteriorly 
where Joining short low rounded caudal; pectoral short, low, 
length about equals eye, base broad. 
Brown, lighter below. Fins brown. Eye gray, 
India, East Indies, Philippines, Polynesia, 
0 
3 examples, Batan Island, tide pools. July 22, 1909, 
Length 101 to 140 mm, 3 examples, 
13989, Iloilo market. Panay. May 31, 1908. Length 427 
mm, 
23019. Nogas Point, Panay. February 4, 1908. Length 
102 to 190 mm. 2 examples. 
